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- WRITING TABLET- No. 346,526. Patented Aug. 3, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. APGAR, OF ITHACA, NEWV YORK.

WRlTlNG TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346.526, dated August 3, 1886.

Application filed October 13, 1884. Serial No. 145,398.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. GEORGE W. APGAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ithaca, Tompkins county, New York, have invented an Improved WVriting-Tablet, of which the following is a specification with drawings.

My writing-tablet is an article made with two covers, united to each other by a stiffened back, and having flexible joints or hinges, the package of paper being made with an inflexible separate back fast to the lower cover, as will be apparent as I describe my invention.

' Figure l is a view 'of my tablet partially made. Fig. 2 shows the cover ready to be attached to the tablet. Fig. 3 shows the cover attached to the package or tablet. Fig. 4is a perspective view, with the cover lifted ready to be folded back under the tablet; and Fig. 5 shows the tablet with cover folded back beneath the tablet proper, in the position when writing is done.

In the figures, a of Fig. 1 is a package or pad of paper, with b, the under cover or tablet proper, made fast to it by the leather or cloth piece 0. \Vhen my paper pad is so far done, it is a plain useful article, ready for use, and in this form I sell it in quantities; but more elaborate forms are required, and hence I make a cover as seen in Fig. 2. It is composed of the following parts: cl, the pasteboard body of the cover, with usually a printed thin sheet of paper on its upper surface, and g are one, two, or more leaves of blotting-paper, which I attach to the pasteboard by a line, f, of rather coarse sewing-machine stitches. There is no joint to the pasteboard or to the blottingpaper; but both are unbroken and unbent to the flexiblejoint j of the cover and its back i. To this cover a piece of cloth or leather, 6, is pasted, as shown, and it makes the upper joint, j, andis pasted fast to the back piece, z,- and at j itis ready, at the dotted line j, to be (No model.)

bent into the lower joint, j. The part of the piece e below the dotted line is ready for the pasting of this cover, made as just described, to the tablet or package seen in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 3 the leather or cloth piece 6 is seen to be made fast to the lower cover, I), or paper tablet, and both the upper cover and back t can be, and are, preferably, when the tablet is used for writing, folded beneath the lower cover.

In Fig. 4. the same parts that have been named are seen. The cover (I is raised a little, showing the blotting-sheets g and the back 13 separating and beginning to go back to fold under the tablet b. The line of stitches f, by which the blotting sheet or sheets, without any joint there, are made fast to the cover (I, is clearly seen. In Fig. 5 the same parts are seen, the upper cover and back being folded beneath the tablet.

The dotted lines Z) in Figs. 1 and 3 show additional stiffening of the angle of the tablet when thought useful.

The joint j is, with its contiguous parts, identical with a common book-cover joint.

The separation and folding back of the cover d, back z', and the holding leather or cloth 6, as a structure by itself alone, I do not consider novel, for these have long been in common use. Its combination with the described w riting-paper tablet is not disclaimed.

What I claim is- In a writingtablet, the combination of the paper pad a, fast to the under cover, I), the upper cover, d, and the loose back 6, connecting the two covers, provided with the stiffening-piece 13, the same making the book-formed tablet, as set forth.

' GEO. WV. APGAR.

Witnesses:

S. J. PARKER, D. F. FIN H. 

